Grief counselors were being sent to schools throughout an Orange County school district Tuesday, a day after a teacher apparently committed suicide in a classroom and her body was found by students and faculty.

Federal agents raided about 20 locations in three Southern California counties early Tuesday as part of an investigation targeting “birth tourism” schemes in which pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States on fraudulent visas so that t . . .

Former CIA director and top Army Gen. David H. Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified material by giving the information to a woman he was having an affair with, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

The Clippers dressed hurriedly in their locker room late Monday night inside Target Center, trying to beat an approaching snowstorm so they could head home to Southern California. They had already weathered a tougher challenge by coming back to . . .

Jarryd Hayne was named the top player in Australia's National Rugby League for the second time last season, a title that likely won't get him out of rookie drills in training camp with the San Francisco 49ers.